Greensboro NC Family Law Blog

Child custody and visitation problems can lead to complex legal issues when court orders are not strictly followed. Any movement of a child by a non-custodial parent without notice may be considered child abduction or kidnapping. A North Carolina mother was recently arrested and charged with child abduction after traveling with her 7-year-old daughter to Maryland.

The mother is not the custodial parent due to a cognitive impairment. Instead, the child's maternal grandmother has custody of the child. The grandmother reported the child and her mother missing after they left for Maryland. A silver alert was issued by the North Carolina Center for Missing Persons and officers tracked down the mother and daughter in Maryland.

When men donate their sperm in North Carolina, most never even consider the possibility that they could end up having to pay child support. But after admitting paternity, one sperm donor in Texas was ordered by a court to pay child support to a mother for several years before an appellate court reversed the lower court's decision.

The man had previously had a sexual relationship with the woman, but the two never married. She later asked him to donate sperm for her in vitro fertilization. He agreed, and she conceived triplets. The donor signed a paternity declaration and was identified on the birth certificates as the father; a move that would have significant, unintended consequences.

Spring is blooming in Greensboro and that could mean an increase in divorces. A new study shows that people associate the month of March not only with warmer temperatures and college basketball but also with the end of a marriage. Now that we've entered into April does that mean fewer couples will be calling it quits?

The study indicates that divorce filings tend to increase during January of each year and continue to increase until they peak around the end of March. Web searches for "divorce" and related terms follow a similar pattern, increasing by 50 percent in January and continuing to increase until March.

Going through a divorce can be difficult whether you live in North Carolina or elsewhere. However, more and more baby boomers are choosing to part ways with their spouses. In fact, the divorce rate among people age 50 and older has doubled in just the last two decades.

Overall, the rate of divorce has declined since the 1980s. However, more people in the second half of their life are choosing to divorce. In 1990, within the divorced population, only 1 in 10 people was 50 or older. By 2009, 1 in 4 people within the divorced population were 50 and older.